All researchers conducting studies with human subjects and members of institutional review boards may soon have to undergo mandatory training in human research ethics. According to a notice in the Federal Register yesterday (July 1), the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is seeking public comment on whether such training should be required.

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A structural brain map -- the most detailed to date -- provides support for a controversial theory of a "default" state of brain activity, and could bring key insights into the physiological basis of illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression, and Alzheimer's disease. Researchers have identified a set of axonal pathways in the human cerebral cortex that forms structural "core" of the cortex -- a neuronal nexus that acts as the main relay station between disparate brain regions involved in... Click to continue